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Oh, the financial losses that can be directly linked back to Louis DeJoy's actions while in charge to actively sabotage the service, the same DeJoy that Trump appointed to sabotage the service?
They murdered it so they could sell it off, don't let them claim otherwise
Pretty sure the issues started well before that fuckface was in charge.
USPS is obligated to deliver everywhere. Uncle Steve who lives out in the middle of buttfuck nowhere gets mail service just like Cousin Roger who lives in the middle of town. Shocking literally no one, having to deliver to multiple Uncle Steve's costs way more money then it brings in.
Then there's inflation, and also just less folks sending mail as a general thing because e-mail is instantaneous and free.
The pension funding requirement was the overwhelming majority of their losses, but that's been resolved as of 2022.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/06/politics/biden-postal-service-reform-law-signing/index.html
In 06 the Republican Congress decided USPS was too profitable and they imposed funding pensions out for 75 years.